Morning journal and courier., 1887-07-16
AN1mPREssIyE OCCASION.

The Funeral i'm Northford Yesterday
 of pr. Jared LinsIy, Long an Emi
 nent and Highly Esteemed Fhysl-
 clan of New York Cfty-EX-PfesidehG
 Porter. Rev. Dr. Alexander of New
 York and Rev. MT. Snyder 0hciate.
 The funeral of Dr. Jared Linsly, late of New York city, was had yesterday at North ford.
 A special car from New York brought 8 large number of friends to Wallingford where carriages were in waiting. The ser- vices were held at the Linsly homestead and were conducted by Dr. Linsly's pastor, the Rev. Dr. George Alexander of New York, as- college, and Rev. Mir. Snyder, of Northford.
 Dr. Alexander spoke fittingly and eloquent ly of his benefcent life, and of him as a type of the many men of New England who had gained their intellectual training on it's rugged soil and then gone out in their life work to the great cities That his life as Q physician had been useful and earnest, retaining there with love for home, nature and all good things, and above all for the God of his fathers.
 His religion had adorned his life and full of years and honors he had been called to his rest
 President Porter then made an address wherein he said that Dr. Linsly possessed in his character the rare combination of integ- rity and strength with simplicity and sweet ness. This integrity and strength furnished him for success in his calling, and fitted him for the stern duties of his profession-which requires honest dealing with nature and hon. est dealing with suffering. His integrity and l honesty shone brighter in the glare of arti- fcial city life, and the princes of capital honored him for the truth and sweetness which mingled their contrast in his character, and for it the members of his profession all honored him.
 He preserved with loving fondness the as sociations of childhood and the recollections of his college life with all the freshness of a boy and as busy man was ever living over and rejoicing in them.
 The associations of his place of education, his union to his classmates and his interest in and helpfulness to the college continued
 to the end of his life, and he rejoiced in them even to the last.
 It was given to him to die in this old home stead; how dear that was to him; how he reioiced in it's associations, we may imagine, but not realize. When he was pressed with busy cares how often did his heart turn back to this valley in which we are; to the ridge of hills before us; to the trees about us. What this old home was to him we may only feel in imagination.
 If, then, we can so love this our home here, how more that blessed home hereaf- ter where he has gone and which is real, more lovely and more real than the shadows of this present world. The remarks were listened to with deep interest.
 It was singularly impressive occasion in that this last tribute to the deceased was made by his family and friends at the old homestead where he was born eighty four years ago.
 mt 1 New York he has visited at frequent inter vals this place of his birth and has taken delight in it's scenic beauty and in the cul- tivatIon of fruit and ornamental trees.
 During 1885 Dr. Linsly constructed a library addition to the homestead, where he had placed the portraits of his parents and of Dr. William Baldwin, with whom he formed a partnership soon after he com menced practice in New York in 1880, and also portrait of Commodore Vanderbilt, who was a life long friend: and also of Oliver Cromwell and Henry Clay, in whose careers Doctor Linsly was ever interested, He had purposed to bring there also the He retained throughout his old age the fond ness for books which he acquired in early boyhood, but his final illness interrupted the ful6llment of such purpose.
 Dr. Linsly was graduated at Yale in 1926 and has been throughout his life an earnest
 
 many and distinguishhd alumni who were prompted by Dr. Linsly to seek their edu- cation there and many of the gifts the col lege has received were at his suggestion. He was close personal friend of his for mer tutor, the revered ex-President Woolsey, and also of the late Professor Thacher. President Dwight had intended to be pres- ent at the funeral, but was detained at Litchfeld.
 Dr. Linsly was himself one of the early benefactors of the college and gave from a professional income which had large de- mands upon him toward the increase of fund established by his uncle, Noah Linsly, of the class of 1874. The income of this fund, known as the Noah and Jared Linsly fund, is now employed in the purchase of books for tLe college library.
 Doctor Linsly occupied many important | positions of trust in connection with medical l and charitable societies in New York city.
 Doctor Linsly's illness began in October | last with pm sumonia. He was attended by Dr. Francis Bacon of tbis city, as consulting physician, and by Doctor Mo(1aughey of Wallingford, both of whom were present at | the funeral services. Among others present | from this city were the widow and daughter | of the late Prof. Thacher.